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Send e-mail to admin of unused (never opend) sharepoint documents

I try to somehow get sharepoint to send an email to the administrator when a document is not used for a long time. Take for example 1 year. With "not used" I mean not even opened.

As we got MOSS, I thougt of using a Policy, but it only has "Last modified" and "created" as dates to choose from, not "Last opened" or similar.

The link bellow shows me how to make a custome policy so I can connect the Due Date to another propertie, but I can´t find a "last opened" property.

http://blah.winsmarts.com/2008-10-Authoring_custom_expiration_policies_and_actions_in_SharePoint_2007.aspx

what I'm thinking about now is to create a custom date-property named "last opened" and then bring it to the current date when a document is opened. But I can not find an event that starts when a document is opened.

Summary:

1. Can you send e-mail to admin of unused (never opend) sharepoint documents out of the box in MOSS?
2. If not, is there an event that fires when an document is opend?

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einarbrown

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Thanks!

That made me thinking of making a job that runs every night and looks for old documents.

Hope that can help me...

 SPList dokumentlist = website.Lists["Dokument"];

                foreach (SPListItem item in dokumentlist.Items)
                {
                    SPAuditEntryCollection auditcoll;
                    auditcoll = item.Audit.GetEntries();

                    foreach (SPAuditEntry entry in auditcoll)
                    {
                        if ((entry.Event == SPAuditEventType.AuditMaskChange || entry.Event == SPAuditEventType.View) && entry.Occurred.CompareTo(DateTime.Now.AddYears(-2)) == -1)
                        {
                            string emailBody = "This document has not been using for a 2 years: " + item.Web.Url + item.Url;
                            SPUtility.SendEmail(website, false, false, "admin@web.com", "Subject", emailBody);
                        }
                    }
                }

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einarbrown

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Thanks!